Sciences

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light-the core of what we now know as quantum theory-than he did about relativity.A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein-not Max Planck or Niels Bohr-was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrodinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics. The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format hardcover, no dust jacket, green cloth spine and color-illustrated covers, beautiful copy of this vintage publication, measures 12 inches by 10 inches and features 66 photographic illustrations. Author was a former associate of Luther Burbank.

Hardcover. Boston, Gould and Lincoln, 1st ed., 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 718 pages. Vol 1 only. Gilt top edge. Light pencil markings throughout. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light shelf wear to boards. Otherwise, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt decoration, 422 pages. SIGNED BY ZWINGER ON TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations. Limited to 500 copies. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Sherwood and Co., Later Edition, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Hardcover. Reprint edition dated 1825 - "A New and Improved Edition, Adapted to the Present State of Science by C. F. Partington". Illustrated with black & white drawings, diagrams. Body of book rebound in current covers at some point. Front hinge cracked, cloth tape along spine is weak, with faint remains of title label. Top 2" of title page missing. Light to moderate foxing to some plates/pages. Sold 'As-Is'.

Hardcover. Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 693 pages, ex-library bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt titles. Usual stamping, residue to end papers, previous owner's signature. Top of leather spine frayed with a split along back edge along top half of spine. Appears to be very repairable with some glue. Internally clean, very good.

Hardcover. London, Ellis Horwood, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages, like new condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Ballier, Tindall & Cox, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering, embossed rules, beveled edges. 167 pages, b&w illustrations, 2 color plates at back of book. Bookplate inside front cover, minor wear to top of spine otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Portland, Timber Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Couple pages creased.

Hardcover. London, John Van Voorst, 1st, 1857-59, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching maroon cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Vol. I. Comprising the butterflies and stout-bodied moths. 338 pages. Vol. II. Comprising the slender-bodied and small moths. 480 pages. Small b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers, signed on title page.

Softcover. Milano, Franco Angeli, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Introductory texts in English, main text in Italian. Girolamo Cardano (1501-76) was one of the most original thinkers of his day, a polymath who applied his mind to philosophy, medicine, mathematics, mechanics and astrology and whose intellectual career led him to teach in Milan and Bologna. Today, Cardano is well known for his achievements in algebra. In his 1545 book Ars Magna he made the first systematic use of negative numbers in Europe, published (with attribution) the solutions of other mathematicians for cubic and quartic equations, and acknowledged the existence of imaginary numbers.

Hardcover. London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1st UK, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, frontis. portrait, 223 pages. First UK edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einsteins stepdaughter, writing under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Foreword by Albert Einstein. First published in the US in 1930. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 456 pages. The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of billions of neurons within a few pounds of matter generates the unfathomable complexity of the mind. This book is a conversational and accessible introduction to the brain. Beginning from basic elements of neuroscience, the acclaimed scientist Rafael Yuste guides readers through increasingly sophisticated topics, developing a unified framework for how the brain functions. He describes how the brain is organized and how it develops, how neurons operate and form neural circuits, and how these circuits function as neural networks to generate behavior and mental states. Yuste challenges the traditional view that the brain is an input-output machine that reacts reflexively to sensory stimuli. Instead, he argues, the purpose of the brain is to make a predictive model of the world in order to anticipate the future and choose successful courses of action. He gives readers insight into the workings of sensory and motor systems and the neurobiological basis of our perceptions, thoughts, emotions, memories, and consciousness. Peppered with anecdotes and illustrated with elegant drawings and diagrams, this succinct and cohesive book is accessible to readers without previous background in the subject. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 484 pages. INSCRIBED BY RAJ PATEL on the title page. "Physician Marya, cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, and University of Texas research professor Patel (The Value of Nothing) examine the social and environmental causes of ill health in this thought-provoking treatise . . . a persuasive argument for the need to address the systemic problems that plague people's minds and bodies." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Albany NY, New York State Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1876-1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated (approximately 400 pages, including 13 b & w plates featuring fungi and mushrooms). Half leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering, raised bands on spine. Light rubbing to boards otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. Hoboken NJ, Wiley-Interscience, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 285 pages. This book is an effort on the direction of standardizing the processes and steps that the design team must take over in order to fulfill the real customer voice in the best possible way. The foundation is sound (Axiomatic Design itself and Taguchi Robustness and Reliability methods), the derivations and mathematical devices are very well elaborated and there's plenty of great examples to base your own study on. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 253 pages. Color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 590 pages. B&W photos, diagrams, and graphs throughout. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Rubbing to dust jacket with heavy edge wear and tears, large chips, Internally clean. Binding is structurally sound and well kept. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 376 pages, index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 629 pages. b&w diagrams. Light smudges to fore edge; else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 433 pages including index. B&w illustrations. Recounts the Wilkes Expedition, whose six ships set out from Norfolk in summer 1838 to sail to the polar regions, the South Pacific, and the coasts of present-day Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The expedition discovered new islands and reefs in the Pacific and charted the Fijis and other islands. Its men explored, fought with natives, and gathered copious scientific specimens, many of which were given to the National Museum, the Naval Observatory, and the U.S. Botanical Garden. Dust jacket with light edgewear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The University Press, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards with green cloth spine, paper label. 117 pages, engraved frontis, portrait of author, 45 fine color lithographed (chromolithographs) plates, other illustrations from photos, index. The author described and illustrated butterflies he believed were new to science. Fine chromolithographic plates by J. Henry Blake (printed by B. Meisel, Boston) illustrating previously unfigured species from the author's collection, mainly from Bolivia. SIGNED BY WEEKS and dated on the front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. DFID, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages, with illustrations and charts, spiral bound. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, previous owner's inscription on rear fly leaf, otherwise, unmarked and bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Volume 1: 443 pages, Volume 2: 390 pages. Some light marking to contents page in vol. 1, otherwise clean and tight set. Illustrated with b&w graphs and charts. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Tuckahoe NY, USV Pharmaceutical Corp., reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 119 pages. Gilt title on spine.B&w plates by Christopher Wren. Owner's name in ink on half title page, else unmarked. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 700 pages, b&w illustrations. With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 377 pages. A pleasing copy of these letters from Galileo's daughter that capture life in a convent in the early seventeenth century and of course the love of her father as well. Side-by-side Italian and English text. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, with illustrations by Bob Hines throughout and an introduction by Richard H. Pough. Minor dust jacket wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. Braunschweig, Vieweg, 2nd Ed., 1898-99, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, ex-library set bound in half leather and marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt lettering. A third volume was added by the author in 1908. Previous owner's signature and usual stamping and residue to end papers, sticker to bottom of spines. GERMAN TEXT.

Hardcover. London, Frank Cass & Co., reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcover volumes, a facsimile reprint of the third edition published in 1857 with an index added in part three. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering in black box on spine. Previous owner's signature on each front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Fading to red cloth on spines.

Softcover. London/Rome, John Libbey, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, clean and tight copy of volume 5. 775 pages, illustrated with b&w charts. Rubbing to wraps with crease on the front. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Rockefeller Institute Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, 395 pages. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Clean, tight cover.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and cover boards.

Hardcover. San Luis Obispo CA, Springer, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 299 pages. Nanotechnology & Society is a collection of sixteen papers focused on the most urgent issues arising from nanotechnology today and in the near future. Written by leading researchers, policy experts, and nanoethics scholars worldwide, the book is divided into five units: foundational issues; risk and regulation; industry and policy; the human condition; and selected global issues. The essays tackle such contentious issues as environmental impact, health dangers, medical benefits, intellectual property, professional code of ethics, privacy, international governance, and more. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Rand Corporation, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 265 pages. Ivory paper wraps with toning. Light toning to pages throughout. Clean, unmarked copy. This is a first printing of this important study for the U.S. Air Force by the Rand Corporation, dated August 11, 1958, Rand Report R-326.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st US, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black design and gilt lettering, 363 pages plus publisher's ads. A late nineteenth century reference on natural science and philosophy. Papillon's engrossing essays, written at various times and put together in this volume as - after the fashion of the time - an effort to dovetail science, metaphysics and philosophy into a higher understanding of life. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 326 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st pbk, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1138 pages. Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society. Sun-fading to spine and spine edge, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1062 pages. This volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without unnecessary jargon, each chapter traces the development of its subject from earliest times to the present day, stressing the social context and its place in scientific thought. Usefully drawn with over 150 tables, drawings and photographs. Two comprehensive indexes of names and subjects. Essential reading for teachers and students in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Industrial History and Archaeology. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Schirmer/Mosel, 4th pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages. Hardcover. 60 vibrant color plates expertly drawn by Bernard Durin. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Columbus OH, Mushroom Publishing Co., 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 609 pages, profusely illustrated with 500 b&w photographs of various types accompanied by scholarly descriptions. Two pages with clear tape repair (now browning), previous owner's bookplate. This copy is notable for the full-color original paintings of various kinds of mushrooms done on the front and rear endpapers. Professionally done (or at the least, done by a very talented amateur) but not signed. Pictures available on request. Tan cloth cover with brown leather spine with gilt lettering and rules. In a cardboard slipcase which has a wraparound color illustration of ferns and mushrooms.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY GRENFELL. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Grenfell. Narrow 1" long (gnawed?) abrasion on bottom edge of front cover. Slight fade to spine cloth, light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages, b&w illustrations. Gray cloth with silver lettering on spine, in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover, otherwise clean and tight.

Softcover. US, National Park Service , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, reprint, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages, illustrated with 24 brilliant color plates including the frontispiece. Original green cloth with gilt decorated front cover, gilt design on spine, top edge gilt. Covers with light edge wear, chipping to top of spine. Title page states New Edition, so assumed a reprint. The plates do not appear to be hand-colored but chromolithographs, all brilliantly colored and except for the frontispiece (which has a touch of foxing) all are clean and unblemished. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 165 pages including index plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. This is the first English translation and first American edition of the classic work originally published in Italy. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. W. Hartford CT, The American Radio Relay League, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Single issue softcover magazine, 96 pages. B/w illustrations, ads. Articles include: Crystal Control for Ultra-High Frequencies, Stabilizing Superheterodyne Performance, Simplified Remote Control for Amateur Trasmitters, others. Wraps lightly worn, dust soiled.

Hardcover. NY, Duffield & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in gilt. 118 pages illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Clean, bright copy.